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I received an email this week from a
colleague that worked with me on the NIM
Redbook back in 2006. He was experiencing an issue with DSM and NIM. He was
attempting to use the dgetmacs command to obtain the MAC address of the network adapters on an LPAR. The
command was failing to return the right information. This was the output from his attempt
with dgetmacs : # dgetmacs -n lpar1 Using an adapter type of "ent". Could not dsh to node lpar1. Attempting to use openfirmware method to
collect MAC addresses. Acquiring adapter... [More]

A colleague of mine contacted me during the week to ask how one could
determine if a POWER7 system was capable of Active Memory Expansion. I thought
I'd share my response with everyone who follows my blog. You can check if the system is capable of providing Active Memory
Expansion (AME), from the HMC command line using the lssyscfg command, as shown here: hscroot@hmc1:~>
lssyscfg -r sys -m Server-8233-E8B-SN1000 -F active_mem_expansion_capable 1 Alternatively you can view the capabilities of
the managed system from the HMC GUI,... [More]